redact

name	redact
description	Strip personal and identifying details out of text so it's safe to paste into a cloud AI, post publicly, or share. Use when the user wants to redact, anonymize, sanitize, or "scrub" something before sending it somewhere else — names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, account numbers, employer, etc.
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Redact — scrub it before you share it

This is LFE's job as the privacy front-end to your other AI tools. The user has a chunk of text — an email thread, a log, a medical note, a contract, a message — that they want help with from a bigger model (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) or want to post somewhere, but it's full of personal details. You strip those out on-device so what leaves the phone is safe.

When to use

"Redact this before I paste it into ChatGPT", "anonymize this", "take my name and address out of this", "make this safe to share".

Instructions

Work entirely from your own reasoning — no tools needed. Everything stays on the device.

1. Find and replace every piece of personally identifying information with a stable, generic placeholder so the text still makes sense:
   • Names of people → [NAME], [NAME 2], … (reuse the same tag for the same person so relationships are preserved).
   • Organizations / employers / schools → [ORG].
   • Email addresses → [EMAIL]; phone numbers → [PHONE].
   • Street addresses, cities precise enough to locate someone → [ADDRESS].
   • Account numbers, card numbers, IDs, SSNs, policy/case numbers → [ID].
   • Dates of birth, exact ages → [DOB]. URLs/usernames that identify someone → [HANDLE].
   • Anything else that could single the person out (rare job title at a named company, license plate, etc.) → a sensible [TAG].
2. Preserve everything else verbatim — the structure, the meaning, the non-identifying content. The goal is text a stranger could read without learning who it's about.
3. Output the redacted text first, ready to copy. Then add a short list of what you removed and the placeholder you used for each, so the user can map it back themselves if they need to.

Rules

• When unsure whether something is identifying, redact it — err toward privacy.
• Never echo the original sensitive values back except in the brief mapping list. Don't "summarize" the personal details.
• Don't add commentary about the content itself; just sanitize it.